Curb on Renting Light Vehicles
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RESTRICTIONS have been imposed on the renting of passenger vehicles constructed to carry fewer than 12 passengers and on goods vehicles with a payload capacity of not more than 30 cwt. They came into force last Monday. London taxis and ambulances are among the exempt vehicles.
Under the Control of Hiring (Vehicles) Order, 1956 (Stationery Office, 4d.), the whole of the rent and service charges must be paid before signing a hiring agreement for a definite period of less than nine months. In any other hiring agreement, the whole of the rent and charges payable during the first nine months must be paid in advance.
• Anyone who has already hired a vehicle for less than nine months is prohibited from making a similar hiring arrangement for that vehicle during the next nine months. Subject to certain provisions to prevent evasion, the Order does not apply where the total hiring is nor more than 90 days in any period of 12 months
NEW FERGUSON TRACTOR ANEW tractor, known as the Ferguson 35, has been produced by Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., Coventry. The 37 b.h.p. engine, available in oil, petrol and vaporizing-oil versions, drives through a gearbox providing six forward and two reverse ratios.
A new hydraulic system has been incorporated which is said to offer greater sensitivity, and thereare additional hydraulic take-off points. The hydraulic pump has increased output.